Do you reinvent yourself every Monday morning? I often do, it seems like a fresh start. It's an opportunity to begin all over again with health and fitness initiatives which have inexplicably fallen by the wayside.
Despite beginning with a bit of a lie-in today, I managed to get to the pool by 9.45 and thrash out (that's a bit of an exaggeration actually) fifty lengths by 10.30. Everso virtuous, I then proceeded to Starbucks with my journal to thrash out (!) my morning pages.
All's right with my world if I manage to begin the week or the day with these two.
So flushed with success, I then proceeded to Waitrose where I ordered in fresh fruit 'n veg by the ton and had two lovely boys deliver it this afternoon while I was working.
Can I keep it up for the rest of the week/month/term? I certainly hope so. Rather like my posting last week about making it to dancing class, it feels so fabulous when you do it, I wonder why we put obstacles in our own way? I don't know the answer to that one, by the way - but please feel free to feed back if you do.
But if I fail, I can always start again next Monday morning, can't I?
While this is not the best of all worlds, its good enough - and here's why.
It's a bit like people always trying to quit smoking, and failing, and trying again. The trouble begins when they give up trying to give up, then of course, its hopeless. But as long as you keep trying, one day soon you will win.
I'm still trying and just for today, I feel like I'm winning. And that's a great feeling which fosters more optimism about being able to replicate today's success tomorow.
One day at a time. Today, and tomorrow, and tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life, and each day lived well, and healthily, is a successful day. Tonight I feel very pleased with myself because I have done two out of three of my favourite things. Swimming and writing. Now if I can just sqeeze in a little reading before bedtime, today will be A Perfect Day. And how often can you say that about a Monday?
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